Prometheus
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Prometheus
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting system designed for cloud-native environments. It collects time-series metrics via a pull-based model and enables powerful querying and alerting for distributed systems.
What is it?
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring solution originally developed at SoundCloud and now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It is purpose-built for dynamic, containerized, and microservices-based systems.
What does it do?
Prometheus scrapes metrics from applications and infrastructure endpoints, stores them as time-series data, and allows querying via PromQL. It supports alerting rules, service discovery, and tight integration with Kubernetes.
Where is it used?
Prometheus is widely used in Kubernetes clusters, cloud-native platforms, microservices architectures, SaaS systems, and enterprise environments requiring real-time observability and proactive alerting.
When & why it emerged
Prometheus was released in 2012 to address the limitations of traditional monitoring tools in dynamic cloud environments. It emerged as a standard for monitoring ephemeral workloads and distributed systems.
Why we use it at Internative
We use Prometheus to monitor system health, performance, and capacity in real time. Its deep Kubernetes integration and flexible querying enable us to operate scalable platforms with confidence and visibility.